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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So many people complain about epic and it's launcher. Yeah, it's not great but it works just fine and with all the free games you can claim, it's just crazy not to have a account for it.

Every week 1 to 2 games to claim and in December for like 2 weeks straight you get extra games to claim.

Who cares it's a repeat or a less good game, it's free. Try it out and maybe you'll find your next favorite game!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And if you're not interested in having their launcher on your system, there's an open source alternative called Heroic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use it on windows? I'm using it on my steam deck to have access to prime, gog and epic.

It looks like a good alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, works perfectly fine on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is it a launcher-launcher like Playnite and GOG? Is it better?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a third-party launcher for Epic, GoG and Amazon. It's way less resource heavy than GoG or Epic and better in terms of privacy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their store is abhorrent to navigate last I tried it. And no Linux default client. A no from me. They don't want me so they won't have me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I totally agree. After all this time the store is still lacking very heavily.

I'm going to give the heroic client a try, works great on my steam deck.

I would just make a account and claim the free games through the website, their always on the frontpage to claim.

But to each their own ofcourse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use heroic, it is pretty good and supports epic, gog and amazon games, also setups proton/wine for you if you are not on win

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does it support Steam? Only launcher I want gone.